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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the power of interpreting dreams, or pretending to judge of future events as signified by dreams.
  2. n. An interpreter of dreams; one who judges what is signified by dreams.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An interpreter of dreams.
  2. adj. Of or relating to the interpretation of dreams.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An interpreter of dreams.
  2. adj. Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ὀνειροκριτικός (oneirokritikos, "fit for interpreting dreams"), from ὄνειρος (oneiros, "dream") + κριτικός (kritikos, "fit for judging"), from κριτής (kritēs, "judge"). (Wiktionary)

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  • “In Judaic tradition one of the principal diviners had been the prophet and oneirocritic (dream-interpreter)”

    ASTROLOGY

  • “That is a question,' he said, 'to put to your astrologer, your oneirocritic, your genethliac.”

    Veranilda

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